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This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...
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.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in Beijing and measure the attributable risk and economic cost. We apply a … burden of MDs. Specifically, a 10 μg/m3 daily increase in PM2.5 is associated with a 3.55% increase in the risk of HAs for …
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has evolved along with the most prominent risk factors associated with the pandemic. Overall, mental health decreased … comparable to those in November 2019. We show that perceived risk of infection, labor market uncertainty, and emotional …
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Using data from the UK, we show that girls have been affected more than boys by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their mental wellbeing. These gender differences are more pronounced in lower-income families. Our results are consistent with previous findings of larger pandemic effects on mental...
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teaching stress and career development stress and has reduced passion towards the teaching occupation. We investigate the …
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This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey …
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. We estimate the group-specific profiles of unobserved heterogeneity, which reflect differences in unobserved risk to be …
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This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006 …-related stress in the pre-crisis period, but not for women. The stratification analysis shows lower work-related stress levels among … crisis is responsible for increasing stress only among older temporary workers and male university graduates, without …
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Behavioural attitudes towards risk and time, as well as behavioural biases such as present bias, are thought to be … improve self-control and reduce stress. We conduct the experiment with 139 participants, half of whom receive a four … impact of our interventions on risk-taking and inter-temporal decisions, as well as on a range of measures of health …
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